h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

As if collecting them isn't bizarre enough.

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I like to do my hair in a really wierd style, dress in nice clothes, and help elderly people with their groceries in the super market parking lot.

u can wash my clothes...

This is a strange thing I do in bed at night sometimes. I find it helps me drop off.
I imagine I'm standing at the top of a very tall building and standing on the edge with my toes hanging over the edge. I lean forwards a little and lean back a little but not enough to fall.
I'm an inch away from certain death. Sometimes I imagine it's a very deep hole.
Any armchair psychologists care to comment?

Sounds perfectily normal behavour to me. But then again, I often climb to the top of very tall buildings, to do just that.

Tell people you've ben mugged by kittens.

The strangest thing I've done this summer was to find magic on a patch of gravel behind a garden shed one long hot night last month.

yeah, that was strange...

but not a strange as the meteor.


Not very often the universe lays on a personal light show for you.

Wow yeah but I don't really consider it strange that we were there at the same time looking at the same shooting star - our own personal shooting star. Not strange, just perfect

Perfect...oh yes.

sit on a bus, or a train, going somewhere, the destination isn't important, so long as people other than yourself are in teh bus/train carrage.
Every now and then, raise your hands above your head and clap a certain, regular number of times, with equal spacing between each clap, trying to keep each clap at the same volume.
Then do it again, some time later.
Do this for the whole journey.
When you arrive somewhere, get up, and say
"I thought that was absolutely marvelous",
And leave the trainwith one hand ontop of your head as you alight from teh train/bus.

> Any armchair psychologists care to comment?

Zis armchair is suffering from depression - you should get out more...

Here's some fun thigns to do in an elevator (Assuming you can keep a strait face). I found these on the Net.

1. When ou get on, walk to one corner and stand facing it. Never move, never make a sound, and don't get off.
2. When people get on, introduce yourself and ask that they call you "the Admiral".
3. If the elevator is crowded, give the person right next to you a look that tells them that something is wrong with them in some way, then move to the other side of the elevator without saying anyting.
4. If you happen to be on the top floor, hold open the door and tell eveyone to be quiet until you hear the penny that you dropped hit the bottom of the elevator shaft. See how long it takes for someone to try and make you move.

There are more, but I can't remember them now. If anyone else has anything funny to do in certain situations/areas, tell me.

Reply to the chicken suit person. You are wonderfully strange. Thanks for the laugh

Whom, in particular, was after this, so-called 'strange things to do', and, perhaps most importantly, have they tried any, and have they had any sucess?
Or, perhaps even more important, why?

Start calling strangers "reptillian kitten-eaters."

Agree with people having conversations in languages you don't speak.

Go to a public place, like a food court in a mall, and (starting with pennies) leave currency in small denominations in the middle of the floor and time how long it takes someone to pick up. I did this once when I was in high school, and my massively overweight (and horrible) drama teacher descended on a quarter in almost less time than it took me to sit down.
It's left me hugely paranoid about loose money in public places.

and to think I once thought I was somewhat odd...

Chick-fil-A now has superhero cows (I have Decibelle), so the demonstration might not be a good idea just now.

Run down the high street, untill you reach a particular place, asides a dustbin, next to a phone box, near the clock in the centre, by a flower bed, then take off your left shoe, hold it to your ear, and after a short while shout 'Yes, Yes, its worked!'.

DISGRACE YOURSELF in a public place... behave like an overgrown schoolboy. Stand at the top of a tower or at the window of a tall building and yell random things down at passers by! Climb a tree or an old building. Throw food at a posh dinner!